One thing is missing from this discussion: Visa processing times have shot up since before covid, and new organizers were still (naively) following timelines f

One thing is missing from this discussion: Visa processing times have shot up since before covid, and new organizers were still (naively) following timelines from a few years ago. They’ll adjust lead times to compensate, but the root cause is the needless increase in visa processing lag. That’s something the governments need to fix, and it has much worse impacts than conference attendance woes.